Space vocabulary
Planets, stars, rockets and astronauts: words for the sky above us
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| Word | Level | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| universe | B1 | everything that is, all the stars and space |
| galaxy | B1 | a huge group of stars in space |
| Milky Way | B1 | the big group of stars that has our sun in it |
| solar system | B1 | the sun and all the planets that move around it |
| planet | A2 | large round thing in space that goes around a star |
| orbit | B1 | path something follows around a star or planet |
| star | A1 | a bright point of light in the sky at night |
| comet | B1 | thing in space with a bright tail |
| asteroid | B1 | a large rock that moves through space |
| meteor | A2 | piece of rock that burns as it falls from sky |
| crater | B2 | a big round hole on a planet or the moon |
| black hole | B2 | a place in space that pulls in everything including light |
| nebula | C2 | cloud of dust and gas in space between stars |
| constellation | B1 | group of stars forming a pattern |
| eclipse | B1 | when sun or moon is hidden from view |
| light-year | B2 | the distance light travels in one year |
| lunar | B1 | about the moon |
| solar | B1 | about or from the sun |
| gravity | B1 | the force that pulls things down to the ground |
| telescope | A2 | a long tube that makes far things look close |
| satellite | B1 | a thing sent into space that goes around the world |
| rocket | B1 | a tall machine that carries things up into space |
| spacecraft | B2 | a vehicle that travels in space |
| space station | B1 | a large home in orbit where people live and work for months |
| astronaut | A2 | a person who goes to space |
| spacesuit | B1 | special clothes that let an astronaut breathe and stay safe |
| launch | B1 | to send a rocket up into space |
| countdown | B1 | counting backward to zero before an event |
| mission control | B2 | the people on the ground who guide a flight into space |
| alien | B1 | creature from another world |
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